The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic.

In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies often increase the violence they initially aim to curtail.

Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens to justice.

While most of us can be fairly certain that police will not suddenly crash through our front door in the middle of the night, that's not the case in Houston.

In a May 2004 press release, the alarming an unintended side effects of Drug Prohibition were laid bare by economist Jeffrey Miron.